Alena Gomes Rodrigues
Zen Supermom: The Mental Fitness Podcast
I'm not a supermom. But I always wanted to be one and have it all: family, career/business that I love, AND the time for myself. But that ambition without proper stress resistance and resilience killed my mom (cancer at 48) and drove me to the edge of burnout twice. Only when I saw the disastrous effects of my anger, stress, and resentment on my little daughter, I knew I had to change... Since then, not only have I healed but I also helped thousands of other women all around the world through trauma-informed therapy and mental fitness training. And I decided to share the most vulnerable and va...
Author
Alena Gomes Rodrigues
Category
Podcast website
Latest episode
Jul 10, 2026
Where to listen?
Podcasts in the app Replaio Radio Coming soonPodcasts are coming to the app soon. Install now and be the first to see a whole new take on podcasts
Episodes
Ep 92: "Wouldn't it be fun if...?" - How to Stop Being a Self-sacrificing Victim of Your Life and Bring in More Fun 24.05.2024 30:12
Send us Fan Mail Uuuuu, this episode is going to bring up a lot of STUFF... :) It's juicy, I share there my own victim stories and patterns I got from my mom. And I also share a secret. So if you ever struggled with finding YOU back, after you got lost in all the responsibilities, struggle and daily stress, then THIS episode of the Zen Supermom Podcast is for you. Sending you a big hug! Ca...
Ep 91: Did She Hire a Psychologist For Her Jealous Firstborn, or ... How Did She Become a Calm, Happy, Expat Mom of 2 Working Full-time? 21.05.2024 30:44
Send us Fan Mail THIS is why the developmental generational childhood trauma is so dangerous. Because many of us have so many happy memories and love our parents so much... Never in our wildest dreams would we think that the reason why we can't stay calm with our kids and help them through their big emotions, that the reason is rooted in our own childhood... And this is what happened to Elis...
Ep 90: Yelling vs. Emotional Numbness: How to Manage Big Emotions & Connect with Your Kids 17.05.2024 28:55
Send us Fan Mail What if instead of yelling at your kids, you're becoming emotionally numb when it all gets too much? Is it better than yelling? What are the risks of that? Is it also a result of childhood trauma? But what if my childhood was great and I don't have any bad memories? Let's do an exercise together and let me unpack this emotional 'check-out'. So that you can...
Ep 89: Grew Up With Violent, Alcoholic Father, and Then Raged at Her Toddler Daughter for Hitting Her - How Is She Feeling Now? 14.05.2024 28:10
Send us Fan Mail This courageous mom decided to never be a victim like her mom was. Growing up with a violent, alcoholic father, she witnessed shouting, screaming, and hitting... and promised herself to be different. And then her daughter became a toddler and started hitting her... How do you heal your anger if even years of therapy and tons of gentle parenting courses did not help you? And what b...
Ep 88: About Self-harm, Boundaries, and Finding YOU After Kids With a Mom of 2 Boys 10.05.2024 47:56
Send us Fan Mail Here's another courageous mom who only after 2 months inside the Zen Supermom program wanted to share about her journey from burnout, depression, and yelling every day, into becoming a role model of healthy emotional management. And she shares it all, without holding back. So if you ever struggled with feeling judged by others, with having to "walk on eggshells" - w...
Ep 87: How a Single Expat Mom of 2 Healed Herself & Her Teenage Daughter of Feeling Like a Victim of Her Life (Inspirational Interview Series) 07.05.2024 32:03
Send us Fan Mail Inspirational interview episode coming up! How do you stay calm as a single expatriate mom of 2 kids with no support around? How do you heal the angry victim voices in your head that want to blame your drinking father, "good girl" mother, ungrateful kids, ... ... And turn into a woman who's genuinely so happy that she even forgot what used to make her explode in ang...
Ep 86: If You Feel Like Ripping People's Head Off When Your Hormones Hit, and Therefore You Can't Be a Calm, Patient Mom... This is What You've Been Missing 03.05.2024 29:36
Send us Fan Mail "I recognise my hormones also play a massive part as certain times in my cycle that my mood hits rock bottom and I am so irritable it’s unbelievable. I could rip peoples heads off. " Are you impacted by your hormones this way too? Do they prevent you from being the calm, patient mom (and wife/partner) you want to be? And why focusing on special diet, self-care, drugs, .....
Ep 85: How a Mom of 2 Stopped Raging and Yelling After 4 Months, When Even 15 Years of Therapy Did Not Help Before (Inspirational Interview Series) 02.05.2024 28:51
Send us Fan Mail This is the first out of many more podcast episodes to come where I'm going to introduce you to the brave, courageous mom who care so much about helping YOU, that it made them overcome their fear of being judged and speaking in public about how they used to struggle. Let me introduce you to this mom of 2 who used to yell and rage daily. So much so that it almost broke her mar...
Ep 84: What To (Not) Do When Your Anxious Child Doesn't Want To Go Back To School After Holidays 26.04.2024 32:02
Send us Fan Mail Struggling with finding the balance between encouraging and pushing your anxious, low self-confidence, introverted child to go back to school after holidays? Should you validate their feelings and agree that school can be lonely and scary, or should you push them to go so that they become resilient? And is this really about your child, or are you feeling their insecurity and anxie...
Ep 83: Why I Know You're a Great Mom Already: The Comforting Reassurance You Need When You Feel Guilty About "Damaging" Your Kids 19.04.2024 27:50
Send us Fan Mail This is the episode you will want to listen to when you want to get hope and feel better, that all is not lost just because you can't keep your anger under control and yell at your children. I'm going to give you a list of reasons why I know that: - You're an amazing parent already - Your kids are lucky to have you - You're not alone - And you can turn it aroun...
Ep 82: Yelling is BAD, But Bottling Up Anger is WORSE?! Here's Why.. 12.04.2024 21:36
Send us Fan Mail Not shouting at your kids but still feeling that anger, stress, and frustration? That's great. And also, while it's a bit better for your kids, it's more dangerous for you and your physical help. Because it's been proven that suppressed emotions (especially those resulting from early childhood trauma), increase your chances of becoming physically sick. (Google...
Ep 81: I Used To Be My Daughter's First Bully 05.04.2024 25:27
Send us Fan Mail I used to be my daughter's first bully. I used to yell at her, stress her out, and made her feel not good enough, and on top, made it her fault, blamed her for all of that. And I'm able to talk about it openly, in public now, only because I managed to stop and heal it, and because after having helped hundreds of moms do the same, I realized I was not alone. So if you&ap...
Ep 80: "Just Five More Minutes!" How to Stop the Screen Time Fights 29.03.2024 28:39
Send us Fan Mail Are you fighting with your kids about their screentime? Is it always "few more minutes, few more minutes"... and then a big drama and fight when you finally take that screen away? While I'm not a parenting expert, not a gaming/screen addiction specialist, there are few reframes that helped moms we work with inside the Zen Supermom program. Perfectly in line with the...
Ep 79: Zen Supermom Team is Growing: Meet our first Zen SuperDAD Coach, Victor! 28.03.2024 29:35
Send us Fan Mail Dad of 4, fluent in 4 languages, trauma-informed coach and so much more. Meet Victor, first man on the Zen Supermom team who will be working 1-1 with all men joining us in the coming weeks inside the Zen Supermom program. It was a pleasure to invite him for this special podcast episode and talk about his own healing journey. Because while his story is unique, it's similar to...
Ep 78: Why Zen Supermom Works Not Just For Moms 22.03.2024 24:52
Send us Fan Mail Mom, dad, married or divorced, straight or gay, parent or not... Everyone is invited because underneath all of these labels we are all humans who need to feel seen, heard, understood, and loved unconditionally, no matter what. So while this podcast and the program I created is called "Zen Supermom", it is an inclusive place and it will help you, if healing, and healthy &...
Ep 77: Zen Supermom Team is Growing: Meet our Community Manager Ellen! 21.03.2024 22:45
Send us Fan Mail There are no coincidences in life. And I do believe that there's a reason why you attract a certain type of people into your life. So this special episode is a celebration of what happens when you consistently focus on your healing... because that's when instead of toxic relationships, you start meeting people who are ready for you, who are headed in the similar directio...
Ep 76: Beyond Your Drama & Stress Addiction: How to Stop Reacting Like Your Parents 15.03.2024 24:58
Send us Fan Mail Our parents deserve respect for bringing us into this world. And they also deserve compassion for having been perfectly imperfect, doing their best to raise us. And, that doesn't mean that we are bound to repeat their emotional patterns, relive their lives, and believe in the same things they did. So whenever you find yourself unable to take a break because your parents taugh...
Ep 75: Busy Badge of Honor: Did being BUSY Become Part of Your Identity? 08.03.2024 21:47
Send us Fan Mail Getting a lot done, being a powerhouse of energy and blasting through your to-do list without having to take breaks... Great! Now... can you also balance it with being able to pause and rest, without feeling guilty? If not, then this podcast episode is for you. And you will want to listen to it not just because you don't want to burnout out, and you don't want to shout y...
Ep 74: Zen Supermom Team is Growing: Meet our Client Success Manager, Sassy! 07.03.2024 15:51
Send us Fan Mail Sassy has already been behind the scenes of this podcast production and all of the Zen Supermom social media content. Bringing her on board the Zen Supermom program was a golden opportunity. Because Sassy is a mom on her own healing journey too. She gets it. Combined with her warm personality, high work ethics and orientation to detail, I tailored our new role in the team for he...
Ep 73: Police Woman and People-Pleaser vs Empowering Kids with Healthy Boundaries 01.03.2024 33:44
Send us Fan Mail Are you the one who needs to take care of the whole family, otherwise there would be chaos? If you feel like you always need to be the police woman - checking, reminding, watching time, nagging for things to get done... OR, you're the people-pleasing mom who never says no for the fear of not being loved, always doing way too much for way too little recognition or gratitude......
Ep 72: The Zen Supermom Team is Growing - Meet Christine! 29.02.2024 28:11
Send us Fan Mail Christine is a third trauma-informed coach coming on board because we have more and more women who can do sessions only at night, after they finish working and kids are in bed. And because Christine is in Canada, she won't burnout having trauma healing sessions in European late evening/night hours. Want to know more about Christine, feel her wonderful energy and hear a bit ab...
Ep 71: How to Stop the Mealtime Power Struggles and Make Your Picky Child Eat More and Different Foods 23.02.2024 29:37
Send us Fan Mail Does your child have 3-4 favorite meals and refuses to eat anything else? Do they gag or even vomit when you push them eat more, or have different/new foods? And if so, how to turn this meal time drama where everyone yells and cries for hours into a warm, happy, relaxed experience for everyone? Listen in... Catch this episode on Youtube too! Join my Free Live Training here every T...
Ep 70: Does It Work For Dads Too? 16.02.2024 34:29
Send us Fan Mail "My husband is yelling at our kids even more than I do. Can you help him too?" I'm getting this question more and more often. Because there are moms who are getting amazing results - being able to communicate with their kids in a calm way, and yet, the kids listen better, there's less drama at home, ... and so even the dads become curious: how come it works bet...
Ep 69: ADHD Symptoms That Come From Childhood Trauma 09.02.2024 21:33
Send us Fan Mail Was your child diagnosed with ADHD - and then you read the symptomps and realized you might have it too? Is that why it's so difficult for you to be a calm, happy mom who doesn't yell? Then listen in because this episode is for you. Because what is diagnosed as ADHD (hyperactivity, scattered attention, lack of impulse control) is a result of childhood trauma ("Adver...
Ep 68: Unconditional Love... Does It Even Exist? And Am I Worth It? 02.02.2024 10:51
Send us Fan Mail How does it feel to be loved unconditionally - the good and the "bad" in you, no matter if you make a mistake, no matter if you look perfect... Is it even possible to be loved or love someone else unconditionally? Or is it just one of those unicorn theories? That's a completely normal and natural question to ask, especially if you didn't always feel loved/appre...
Similar podcasts
Replaio is not a podcast publisher; show names, artwork and audio belong to their authors and are distributed through public RSS feeds.